Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Development Status

[Jeffrey M. <ku...@zo...>]

On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 17:02, Jan Blunck wrote:
> 
> But there are also some drawbacks with higher-level APIs: you have
> to reduce the feature-set to become portable and the higher-level api's
> are often much slower than the low-level toolkit-wrapping APIs.
> 
> This is the problem that smalltalk implementations have since years. All
> the gui-toolkits are incompatible although the most of them are using 
> the
> same ideas like MVC.
> 
> The industry is paying attention when the toolkit is nearly complete 
> (you
> are supporting all widgets) and if it is fast. They are not interested 
> if
> it is too slow but has a sophisticated API. You must always remeber that
> in most commercial situations not the programmers are the deciders but
> the project leaders which are often non-programmers.

Is it possible to provide a well designed API that provides both the
high level abstractions that make GUI development simpler while at the
same time providing the speed and flexibility that are needed?

-Jeff